Debian: DSA-1674-1 Critical: Jailer Insecure Temp File Issue
debian
November 30, 2008
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that updatejail, a component
of the chroot maintenance tool Jailer, creates a predictable temporary
file name, which may lead to local d...
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Summary
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your jailer package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 27372 403ad34e153f4dbc14621b2bca464487
Size/MD5 checksum: 27920 a6bead6286022c54e73bfe1f51e5e5f3
Size/MD5 checksum: 599 2a59c032c5da19b3443c0bd5c573a6e6
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 11688 8e042e660665df9b8657399ec3845cc8
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